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WiL-tanti: n. HOUSTON, or BInMlNeHtiM, CONNECTICUT, AssreNo/i 'ro HIM- SELF, GEORGE W. HUBBELL, AND JOHN n; LATTIN, or SAME PLAGE.

Letters Potent No.`64.87 2, dated Hey 21, 1867.

IMPROVEMENT INv TAPES OP HOOPSKIRTS.'J

'ro ALL WHOM'IT MAY ooNoERN: Be it known'that I, WELLIAM E. HOUSTON, of Birming'ham,`in the county of New Havcn,.and State of Connecticut, have invented a new `Improvement in Hoop-Skirts; and I do hereby declare the following, .when taken in connection withthe accompanying drawings and the letters of referencenxnrked thereon, ,to be-o full, clear,

andiexact description pf the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, and represent, in

Figure l, a, face view. Figure 2, a transverse section of the tape on line :v 2:; and inV Figure 3, a transverse section'of the tape on line z z.

Thieinvention elzttes to an improvement in the vertieel'tapes of hoop-skirts, andttis designed more partienlarly for that part of the skirt called the tabs, thzit is the tapes each side of the front onening, and consists of y 'a tape formed with a longitudinal pocket combinedwith transverse pockets.

l In order to the better understandino of m invention, os Well ns to enable others Vto construct the same I o y a f l 7 A will proceed to a description thereof, as illustrated in the accompanying drawings.

The tape A is woven in the usual manner, with trensverse-plockets'B, Vfor'the insertionot` the hoops, and

upon one edge I form a longitudinal pocket, C, (seeg. the said pockets'B opening through the lon'gitudi'al pocket C, as seen i lig. 3. The object of this invention is fully set forth in my applieationyfor Letters yPatent for improvement in hoop-skirts, led in even date herewith, and is as follows :4 A cord 'is run into the pocketvC,

and the hoops D passed through the transverse pockets Band secured to the tapeA hy olas-lisier sp'angle's other device, and `to their ends a. clasp, I', .is fixed, thesaid clasp being 'formed so as to be secured tothe end-'of the hoop-and over the pocket IC, so that thelabor and expnseo the ordinary tubarzeal'most wholly 'avoided- Having thusl fully described my invention,,wliut I claimv asfne'w and useful', arid desire to-secureby Letters,

lmanner herein set forth, as an improvedarticle of manufactur-e.:

Atepe, formed. 'with a. longitudinal'pocket, C, -combined with transverse pook-eth1,,.substantially in the i -f\\..li"1:1`;zI:01ISTON,

,'Witnesses: J 08N H.l Snonwnr,

Tmex'rs. 

